Since I'm checking this site more and more now for There Will Be Blood articles, how about we have another topic to hold our attention.

I'm just curious what you guys/girls have of PTA-related stuff.

I've got a signed Magnolia poster Paul gave to Elvis Mitchell of the NY Times (It says: "To Elvis, you make me far too relaxed, I'll regret everything", a signed Boogie Nights DVD, prop frog and Blossoms and Blood DVD.

I'm not saying what I've got is great, I'm just really interested in who out there has what.

I have a piece of torn shirt gotten from him when film nerds decided to end their social life, dedicate a forum to him and randomly attack him when seeing him because they had no idea what else to do when seeing their "God".

For Christmas a few years ago a buddy got me a rubber frog from Magnolia. I thought that was a pretty cool gift.

Those who say that the totalitarian state of the Soviet Union was not "real" Marxism also cannot admit that one simple feature of Marxism makes totalitarianism necessary: the rejection of civil society. Since civil society is the sphere of private activity, its abolition and replacement by political society means that nothing private remains. That is already the essence of totalitarianism; and the moralistic practice of the trendy Left, which regards everything as political and sometimes reveals its hostility to free speech, does nothing to contradict this implication.

When those who hated capital and consumption (and Jews) in the 20th century murdered some hundred million people, and the poster children for the struggle against international capitalism and America are now fanatical Islamic terrorists, this puts recent enthusiasts in an awkward position. Most of them are too dense and shameless to appreciate it, and far too many are taken in by the moralistic and paternalistic rhetoric of the Left.